(ENG) “I wanted to get a full backpack with the necessity to sleep, fix, eat, cook, I mean, kitchen and bedroom to carry on my shoulders, and go somewhere to find a perfect solitude and contemplate the perfect void of my mind and be completely neutral compared to any idea and all.”
-J. Kerouac-

(ENG) “All the people we meet are our reflection. They were sent because we, seeing them, we correct our mistakes; and when we do it, these people also change. Or they go forever from our lives. ”
Boris Pasternak

(ENG) There are 122 days out of now and the Hashtag to follow is #cammino100torri Simple….
I hope…..

Everything come from the problem that many of whom have had the luck or misfortune (sometimes this is very sweet), to live the Camino of Santiago. You go back home with almost a disease: a never-ending need to keep walking.
What a revolutionary act: walking!
Feeling the lungs work like bellies, legs turn right, sun burning your skin, nature, everything is perfect.

Obviously you can imagine how, after two and a half months on the Iberian’s experience, this desire has become particularly insatiable in my case, and so I went on hunting for experiences to do, new lands to walk, new faces to look at and new stories to listen.

Just when I thought I was out, what I was looking for was coming out of the social: a incredible trip Sardinia at the end of February! A walking tour that takes away almost two months and just under 1300km …. (!!), a route that virtually does not leave the sea view, going to touch 100 abandoned coastal towers that were, at the time, for the island, the defensive, communication and sighting system. A path to a land completely unknown to me that attracts me particularly.

I use a couple of days to understand if and how to join the initiative, so contact N.M. (principal project manager), for more information. I remain involved with his sympathy, determination and all his project, a great project. So much so that we immediately come in tune, suggesting a very promising collaboration.

The game at this point is very simple: stay in wait, count days, imagine, dream.
For further information, I highly recommend visiting their website (www.cammino100torri.com)

For this step of peregrinating to the discovery of myself and the search for stories to listen to, I opted for a more reflexive, meditative solution. So I returned to a very special setting, 20 Km from Rosignano (Prov. Of Livorno).

A place I call (also this) “home”.

A place of silence, peace, a true corner of Tibet, surrounded by the wonderful Tuscan hills.

In the 1970s, a family gave their farm to a Lama who, thanks to the work of volunteers, became one of the most important centers of all Europe for the preservation of that branch of Buddhist philosophy called Mahayana (simply think that our happiness passes only and exclusively through the happiness of others, giving them their priority and our greatest attention).

When I come back here, I have the opportunity to find some balance, have the opportunity to listen to silence, to let my mind flow, and then to get back to the divine part that resides in each of us. In particular, I also need to start creating some planning for the future, and above all, after a difficult return to the Italian land, to find that part of myself with which I had great relationships during my Iberian experience.

At the same time that the course of events is left to flow, with an open, welcoming and non-judgmental mind, there is also the chance to live true magic.

Let me explain better: for an important event here at the Institute, people from all over Europe have arrived. In conversation with some of them I realized that I had many opportunities in places that I would not have imagined. These is also happen by simply taking a tea: this dear person who I have not seen for a long time comes, and with the utmost innocence we discover that for the winter there are great opportunities to share the same programs, which in turn open new perspectives and so on, like the ramifications of a tree.

Yesterday I needed to away from it everything and everybody, so I went into a mysterious hidden corner, in the vineyards, just only to hear the sky and watch the silence.

It happens then that the breath slows down, the awareness of the surrounding space increases, and only then does that smile come from the heart, which makes you feel in deep connection with the surrounding environment and Nature.

(ENG) I remember the Christmas Eve dinner of 2013 when I saw with great pain the fiery images of the burning roof of the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary in Muxia, and next summer I would have had the chance to live my first Pilgrimage to Santiago, seeing it alive ..
Galicia, really impossible not to fall in love.
After visiting it from east, west, and from the north with the wonderful English Path, I was left alone in southern Galicia (a time dedicated to this experience). A unique surprise: landscapes of absurd beauty and people of genuine hospitality.
Explaining the green that permeates these lands, explaining the magic that vibrates when you walk immersed in these woods, waiting to see elves appear from one moment to the next, it is impossible …

And now finding out what’s happening in these hours is, for me, only one suffering: my shoes still stink of that forest, resin and pines of grapes, eucalyptus leaves … it’s hard to find the words corrected at a time like this, so let me talk about the pictures … just some of the hundreds I picked up.

(ENG)Venice, the world capital of Love, is just an hour’s train from my city. It’s also an amazing street photography gym, and there are important cultural events such as the famous exhibition of Cinema and the Biennial of Contemporary Art, which takes place in a context that I love very much (gardens and arsenal).
This year, for many reasons, I was only able to visit the Biennale, and for a very short time, with a very dear person.

My ignorance in the field of contemporary art is abysmal. But what attracts me of this event is the emotional side, and especially when you are an integral part of the work, you can interact with it.

When visiting the Korean pavilion, we enter in the little room with 600 watches, and each has been written name, country, year, profession. Obviously, we remain fascinated and abducted, as we ask the meaning of the different speeds of the hands, observing in particular a clock that is faster than the others (here the video).
Without having to waste time searching and reading the microscopic half-hearted explanation, an unexpected response comes from a passing teenager.

Happiness and suffering come from your own mind, not from outside. Your own mind is the cause of happiness; your own mind is the cause of suffering. To obtain happiness and pacify suffering, you have to work within your own mind.